Global Food Innovation Award Winners
2022
2022 Research Award Winner
Dr. Delia Grace Randolph
Dr. Delia Grace Randolph, winner of the research innovation award, is a renowned scientist with unique and transformative impacts on the safety of food systems and public health in developing countries. As a trained veterinarian and epidemiologist, she brings a special expertise on the interconnectedness of animal health, human health and eco-health to her work. A focus of her work is improving food safety in informal markets in developing countries.
2022 Community Award Winner
Access Agriculture
Access Agriculture, winner of the community engagement innovation award, is a non-profit organization that works directly with community groups to produce and deliver high-quality, farmer-to-farmer training videos. The video resources help to provide informative and relevant content to farmers in small communities. The organization helps ensure the videos are available in local languages and accessible to smallholder farmers even in remote rural areas where technology, power and internet are limited. Over the past decade, the videos have reached 90 million people and have helped ensure healthier and more resilient food systems.
2021
2021 Research Award Winner
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
2021 Community Award Winner
Food Heritage Foundation
2020
2020 Research Award Winner
Dr. Rattan Lal
2020 Community Award Winner
Appetite for Change
2020 Community Award Winner
Community Food Centres Canada
2019
2019 Research Award Winner
Dr. Leon Kochian
2019 Research Award Winner
Food Forward South Africa
2018
2018 Research Award Winner
Dr. Samuel Myers
2018 Community Award Winner
Solidaridad
Community Food Heroes
In recognition of outstanding and innovative contributions to making their own communities’ food systems more equitable, nutritious, sustainable and just.